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Rants for a better AmericaWed, 22 May 2013 23:17:32 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1Comment on Poetry by Ode to the Sandals by Allan Edmands | rockcitywritershttp://flagindistress.com/poetry/#comment-1428
Ode to the Sandals by Allan Edmands | rockcitywritersWed, 22 May 2013 23:17:32 +0000http://flagindistress.com/?page_id=539#comment-1428[...] the original Spanish version, see http://flagindistress.com/poetry/ Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like [...][...] the original Spanish version, see http://flagindistress.com/poetry/ Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like [...]
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Barry Fruchter/Dov RoseMon, 26 Mar 2012 13:55:31 +0000http://flagindistress.com/?page_id=539#comment-770Palabras admirables y sentidos fuertes! Me ato totalmente a esas sandalias! Que el "estimado" "juez" Scalia muera de balas de la Verdad!
Wow! What a great poem! Please read it next time there is an open reading OR next time I am doing one!
I bow to your elegant and eloquent lines, tus lineas elegantes y eloquentes, en la tradicion nerudal!
BarryPalabras admirables y sentidos fuertes! Me ato totalmente a esas sandalias! Que el “estimado” “juez” Scalia muera de balas de la Verdad!
Wow! What a great poem! Please read it next time there is an open reading OR next time I am doing one!

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Jens-Christian JensenWed, 21 Dec 2011 12:38:35 +0000http://flagindistress.com/?p=552#comment-691This article seems to ignore the fact that the US had already been bombing civilian targets such as cities (both in Japan and Germany) with napalm etc. for years prior to the Hiroshima/nagasaka attacks, killing more civilians that those two attacks combined (100.000 in Tokyo alone). So if killing civilians was a major concern for them, they were pretty hypocritical.
Besides, no one seems to consider the number of Japanese deaths (military and civilian) and invasion of Japan would have cost.
If the bomb had not been dropped on H and N, then it would have been used somewhere else, probably to much worse effect.This article seems to ignore the fact that the US had already been bombing civilian targets such as cities (both in Japan and Germany) with napalm etc. for years prior to the Hiroshima/nagasaka attacks, killing more civilians that those two attacks combined (100.000 in Tokyo alone). So if killing civilians was a major concern for them, they were pretty hypocritical.

Besides, no one seems to consider the number of Japanese deaths (military and civilian) and invasion of Japan would have cost.

If the bomb had not been dropped on H and N, then it would have been used somewhere else, probably to much worse effect.

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Did Hiroshima and Nagasaki save lives? (and other thoughts on the use of nukes) | Flag in DistressTue, 11 Oct 2011 00:16:39 +0000http://flagindistress.com/?p=552#comment-575[...] Hiroshima: New facts and old myths [...][...] Hiroshima: New facts and old myths [...]
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Ed SchreiberFri, 16 Sep 2011 19:15:32 +0000http://flagindistress.com/?page_id=2#comment-503Hi Allan,
I suspect, since you mentioned Howard Zinn, that your political views and mine are not all that different. Our views on religion might not be that far apart either, as I don't consider myself religious. I'm a Lutheran, after all. But I appreciated getting to meet and listen to you and your views, and I hope last Wednesday wasn't the last time we're together. BTW, I'm a member of Christian Peacemakers which supports Palestinian rights.Hi Allan,
I suspect, since you mentioned Howard Zinn, that your political views and mine are not all that different. Our views on religion might not be that far apart either, as I don’t consider myself religious. I’m a Lutheran, after all. But I appreciated getting to meet and listen to you and your views, and I hope last Wednesday wasn’t the last time we’re together. BTW, I’m a member of Christian Peacemakers which supports Palestinian rights.
]]>Comment on Downgrading democracy by Markhttp://flagindistress.com/2011/08/downgrading-democracy/#comment-473
MarkFri, 02 Sep 2011 22:11:07 +0000http://flagindistress.com/?p=573#comment-473I share your distaste for our gov't officials.
The upside flag is a sign of distress... isn't it that Our Constitution is in distress?
Would you agree...
I've got ideas to get the word out, may be a little controversial...
but it won't cost money, the press will love it.I share your distaste for our gov’t officials.

The upside flag is a sign of distress… isn’t it that Our Constitution is in distress?
Would you agree…

I’ve got ideas to get the word out, may be a little controversial…
but it won’t cost money, the press will love it.

]]>Comment on WTF ? by adminhttp://flagindistress.com/wtf/#comment-469
adminWed, 31 Aug 2011 13:08:13 +0000http://flagindistress.com/?page_id=2#comment-469David, probably the link you want is http://flagindistress.com/2011/03/death-of-the-liberal-class/
He is quite an eloquent and engaging speaker; you might want to get an inexpensive CD of his actual speech at Alternative Radio (the link is on the page I just linked you to).
That is not the only one of Chris Hedges's talks on the blog, though. There is also http://flagindistress.com/2011/07/empire-abroad-tyranny-at-home/
Hedges, a former war correspondent, wrote a very telling book about the adrenaline high of warmaking: <em>War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning</em>.
Here is a youtube on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2SaM8RJ30c
Here is the Amazon blurb: http://www.amazon.com/War-Force-that-Gives-Meaning/dp/1400034639
Here is a lot of info on Hedges (a collection of his columns): http://www.truthdig.com/chris_hedges
I've talked with Hedges myself, and I respect him tremendously. He nails it.David, probably the link you want is http://flagindistress.com/2011/03/death-of-the-liberal-class/
He is quite an eloquent and engaging speaker; you might want to get an inexpensive CD of his actual speech at Alternative Radio (the link is on the page I just linked you to).
That is not the only one of Chris Hedges’s talks on the blog, though. There is also http://flagindistress.com/2011/07/empire-abroad-tyranny-at-home/
Hedges, a former war correspondent, wrote a very telling book about the adrenaline high of warmaking: War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.
Here is a youtube on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2SaM8RJ30c
Here is the Amazon blurb: http://www.amazon.com/War-Force-that-Gives-Meaning/dp/1400034639
Here is a lot of info on Hedges (a collection of his columns): http://www.truthdig.com/chris_hedges
I’ve talked with Hedges myself, and I respect him tremendously. He nails it.
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David LymanWed, 31 Aug 2011 02:28:37 +0000http://flagindistress.com/?page_id=2#comment-467Hi Allan, I am not a sophisticated internet user. However, I try facebook and tonight a mutual friend, Beverly Hartford, linked (?) to your blog and I read a piece by a Chris Hedges (sp?) and I actually believed and felt like I was reading ideas that were truthful and realistic. I somehow lost access to that piece and would like to reread it and pass it along to others. Can you send me the site or direct me? Thanks. DavidHi Allan, I am not a sophisticated internet user. However, I try facebook and tonight a mutual friend, Beverly Hartford, linked (?) to your blog and I read a piece by a Chris Hedges (sp?) and I actually believed and felt like I was reading ideas that were truthful and realistic. I somehow lost access to that piece and would like to reread it and pass it along to others. Can you send me the site or direct me? Thanks. David
]]>Comment on Economic crisis and the Tea Party by http://www.car-repos.blogspot.comhttp://flagindistress.com/2011/06/economic-crisis-and-the-tea-party/#comment-362
http://www.car-repos.blogspot.comSat, 23 Jul 2011 13:39:37 +0000http://flagindistress.com/?p=458#comment-362I agree with the comment written above/\/\/\I agree with the comment written above/\/\/\
]]>Comment on Chrnobyl’s silver anniversary by adminhttp://flagindistress.com/2011/04/chrnobyls-silver-anniversary/#comment-100
adminWed, 27 Apr 2011 13:24:56 +0000http://flagindistress.com/?p=380#comment-100As for mountain-top removal (see http://www.democracynow.org/2011/4/22/now_is_our_time_to_take ): ‎"We could send 30 people onto a mountaintop removal site, shut it down temporarily, cost them a lot of money, start to clog up the court systems of West Virginia, and we could send 30 people the day after that and the day after that and the day after that, every day for a year. And I don’t think we would ever get to that year point, because mountaintop removal would end before that. Long before we got to the end of that year, Barack Obama would be forced into a choice between either ending the war against Appalachia or bringing in federal troops to continue it. And for all my disgust—for all my disgust and disappointment with Barack Obama, I don’t think he would bring in federal troops to defend a mountaintop removal site. I think he would end it before it got to that point. And it’s our job as a movement to force him into that position."
In March, a federal jury convicted environmental activist Tim DeChristopher of two felony counts for disrupting the auction of more than 100,000 acres of federal land for oil and gas drilling. He faces up to 10 years in prison for being an "unauthorized bidder" in an auction selling off federal lands in Utah for strip mining--and he had the money to pay for the bid. (Greenies aren't supposed to participate in the rape auctions.)As for mountain-top removal (see http://www.democracynow.org/2011/4/22/now_is_our_time_to_take ): ‎”We could send 30 people onto a mountaintop removal site, shut it down temporarily, cost them a lot of money, start to clog up the court systems of West Virginia, and we could send 30 people the day after that and the day after that and the day after that, every day for a year. And I don’t think we would ever get to that year point, because mountaintop removal would end before that. Long before we got to the end of that year, Barack Obama would be forced into a choice between either ending the war against Appalachia or bringing in federal troops to continue it. And for all my disgust—for all my disgust and disappointment with Barack Obama, I don’t think he would bring in federal troops to defend a mountaintop removal site. I think he would end it before it got to that point. And it’s our job as a movement to force him into that position.”

In March, a federal jury convicted environmental activist Tim DeChristopher of two felony counts for disrupting the auction of more than 100,000 acres of federal land for oil and gas drilling. He faces up to 10 years in prison for being an “unauthorized bidder” in an auction selling off federal lands in Utah for strip mining–and he had the money to pay for the bid. (Greenies aren’t supposed to participate in the rape auctions.)